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Reversible functional asplenia and subcapsular liver hematoma--two distinctive manifestations of amyloidosis
E Levy-Lahad1, D Steiner-Salz, N Berkman
1Department of Medicine B, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
Klinische Wochenschrift
|November 16, 1987
Abstract:
We hereby describe a patient with amyloidosis complicated by reversible functional asplenia and spontaneous rupture of the liver with subcapsular hematoma which resolved completely with conservative therapy. These two rare findings may result from extensive vascular amyloid in this patient.